by Larae Quy | Aug 30, 2021 | Anxiety, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As a new agent, right out of the FBI Academy, I felt as though I could conquer any roadblock or setback because I’d spent 4 months learning how to prepare to make arrests, interrogate suspects, and gather evidence. So, it was a bit of a surprise that, when I attended...
by Larae Quy | Aug 15, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Chances are good that, at some point in your life, you tried to change your behavior. You probably relied on willpower to stay focused, and chances are also good that you failed and ended up back where you started. If you are unlucky, you blamed yourself which only...
by Larae Quy | Aug 2, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology
Everybody wants to be a success. Or a hero. Or famous…or something. Some of our dreams are juvenile while others propel us toward a life of value and meaning. When I was six, I wanted to be Daniel Boone. Biology, among other considerations, prevented me from being a...
by Larae Quy | Jul 19, 2021 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Show me someone who has never made a mistake and I will show you someone who has never accomplished anything meaningful in their life. They are losers, people who are generally timid and lazy—and usually selfish because it’s all about their precious feelings. They...
by Larae Quy | Jul 5, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
There’s something positive and uplifting about our circumstances now that the COVID pandemic promises to be a distant, albeit bad, memory. It’s especially poignant because those same memories resemble a scaled down version of the apocalypse. New beginnings are an...
by Larae Quy | Jun 25, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I’m a firm believer that jerks are not born; they are made the old-fashioned way—from the ground up, by adults who never outgrew their selfish behavior. Jerks are groomed by people who live by crappy values and tend to be awful human beings. You know the ones I mean;...
by Larae Quy | Jun 7, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
When people meet me, they expect me to have the kind of bravado that is portrayed by FBI agents on TV and in movies—confident with no signs of weakness or vulnerability. Nothing could be further from the truth! It’s true that the most successful agents I worked...
by Larae Quy | May 11, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
2020 was about staying alive. Everything else was fluff. This summed up an email I received from one of my readers. She still has her job but it feels like hell because so many of her friends lost their job. She’s healthy but that feels like crap, too, because she’s...
by Larae Quy | May 4, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
One of the first things my firearms instructor at the FBI Academy told me that the best shooters are those who can stomp out the noise—both external and internal distractions—so they can focus on the scene in front of them. All I needed to do was relax, breathe, and...
by Larae Quy | Apr 20, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
My grandmother was a tough old bird. She lived in a time and place where she needed to be resilient if she expected to survive tough winters on a Wyoming cattle ranch. If I moped around while doing chores she would yell, “Get the lead out of your ass and start...
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